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Schedule change: the trim carpenters are here, and no sign of the hardwood floor guy. So the next 4 days or so will be trim carpentry, and the floor guy is pushed back to about next Tuesday so he won’t be in the way. Cabinets will get delivered and installed right after that.

So there’s four trim carpenters working (Amy and I spent all day at the site cleaning up trash, so we met them) on our house. They do some very very pretty work, as you’ll see in the pics. The thing that was a nice surprise was the shelving details in the closets. They do a nice setup that makes a lot more space usable than just a shelf+rod sort of arrangement. The doors are all hung on the first floor, and only two remain on the second floor. They set the height of the baseboard above the floor according to the different type of flooring in each room.

The cove molding looks absolutely dynamite. And the overall idea of using large size moldings really helps give a luxurious feel. Plus, these guys know what they’re doing, and made some of the details look fantastic, like this spot where the cove molding ends at the transition to the staircase where the ceiling takes an angle upward.

Pocket doors are somewhat impractical and hard to install, but we put three of them in the design, and we’re very pleased with how they are installed. If you don’t know what a pocket door is, it hangs on a track and retracts into the wall to open instead of swinging out. I was pleased that the door style on our pocket doors matches the others–I hadn’t really thought about it much, but I sort of figured they wouldn’t match.

They got a little farther trimming out the upstairs–the kids’ bedrooms got finished today, and a lot of work on the master suite is complete. Again, the closets really impressed me. Between the textured drywall finish and the built-in shelves the trim carpenters built, these are very nice closets.

And the moldings and trim really make the master suite start to look dramatic, even though the vaulted ceiling prevents us from using any molding at the top of the room. The baseboard alone defines things very nicely. In one of these pics, I stitched together a couple photos to try to convey the scale of the vault–this is looking at the door (which is in an angled) wall from the viewpoint of standing in the opposite corner of the room.

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